The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. ~Anais Nin
What a great Mystery Photo Game you all have made this one! Thank you for making it fun. The first picture most of you got easy peasy, but I upped my game and made it a little harder on the next ones. Not sure about this one, but then I wasn’t sure about the others either. I really thought some of you might get the dog leash, but you danced all around that one with Lucretia coming the closest when she guessed a belt. Maybe I needed to have Frankie’s black fur with that one.
Wednesday’s post tricked some of you but I loved the variety of guesses. Lisa B. just admitted she was stumped but still got that entry in the drawing for a book. Several of you, Birdie, Lavon, Sandra, Ann, thought it might be a honeycomb even though a few of you were a little doubtful that the color was right. I liked Robin’s guess of honeycomb cereal in milk. Now that is using her imagination.
Connie and bn100 suggested bone cartilage and Connie had an alternate guess of a shell. Elizabeth, Hope and Jacinda thought it might be a wasp next. I think I did that once in one of my games, but not this time. I liked Marji’s guess of a sunflower after the birds have pecked out all the seeds. Karen thought it was one of those waffle mats that you might have in front of the door. That was a great guess. Wrong but a really great guess. Amy went out into the ocean for a guess of coral. Emily was different from everybody with her vinyl chair, but then Kim was too with her furnace filter guess or garlic. Birdie’s second guess of a tile roof showed some imaginative thinking too. Ola used her imagination as well guessing it might be deep inside a flower.
Jolynn, the same as several of you, had two guesses. First one was the underside of a slug. Unless the slimy thing was crawling across a piece of glass, that wasn’t going to happen. I don’t like slugs. But then she also thought it might be a soapy sponge. Natalya was with her on that guess. Tammy thought it might be an egg carton and Carol said a bell pepper. I love Linda with what she called her “desperate” guess of a toad. That was pretty desperate, Linda. 🙂
Nancy hedged her bets saying it was something in nature. That does happen a lot with my mystery pictures and she’s right for this one too. Okay, Connie Lee and Lisa H. were very close with their mushroom guesses but it wasn’t the underside of a mushroom. No, it was what Paula, Lee and Karen recognized at once. A morel mushroom. They know their mushrooms.
I had never actually seen one of those mushrooms before except in photos. But then my son and three of his kids walked to my wildflower cliff area and at the bottom of the cliff in front of the cave coming up out of the rocks, there was a morel mushroom. We both knew what it was at once. But of course, we had the whole mushroom and not some super small portion of it the way all of you did. I’m not a mushroom harvester, but it was fun seeing something I hadn’t seen on my farm before. Always fun to make a nature discovery.
Now you have one more picture to figure out before I draw the three winners on Wednesday. Deadline to enter is 12 p.m. Tuesday May 31, 2022. But whether you win or not, I do hope you’ve had fun exercising your imagination with me. I have a photo file of past mystery photos on my computer and I have to admit that I’ve forgotten what some of them are. Now they are a new mystery to me. LOL. I admire you all with your guesses, right or wrong.
So, what’s your idea of what our last mystery photo up top is?
WHEN THE MEADOW BLOOMS
This was Dirk’s response when Anneliese told him he would be trespassing on her father’s farm if he crossed the river.
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A close up of a pile of buttons? Psalm 48💜
I guessed buttons right off the bat and hubby said a Dutch oven lid with food inside.
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Fun that you got your husband in on the guessing, Lucy. I like that you came up with different answers. Independent thinking. 🙂
It also looks like buttons in a tin or some container to me as well.
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It’s fun that you’re all seeing buttons, Sandra. I’m not admitting yet that you are all right, but we will see if those buttons stack up soon.
I think it does look like buttons especially the top piece. But just for the sake of another guess, I’ll say some dishes or bowls turned upside down with a lid on top!
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Fun that you came up with a second idea, Connie. I’ve either totally failed at this mystery photo or you’re the only one right with your second guess. LOL
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Jacinda, Martha, Joyce, and Pastor Jan – You all are joining in with the popular guess. I suppose we’ll see if everybody or almost everybody is right or wrong on Wednesday. If everybody is right, I’ll almost be ready to hunt a harder mystery photo. If everybody is wrong, then I’ll smile because I tricked you all. We shall see.
My guess is buttons.
I am going to have to guess a stack of buttons.
Looks like a group of buttons to me.
My guess is buttons
Don’t think this is what I think it looks like but here goes. Looks like a half closed eye lid to me.
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Ola, I love your guess. I could have taken a selfie and zoomed up on my eyes. If I’m smiling, my eyes are always half closed.
My first thought was a stack of plates. Then I saw buttons. I’m torn between the two. Lol
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Hope you had fun checking out the mystery photo, Lisa. A right answer is fun but not necessary to get that entry in the drawing for a book. So either guess would be fine. You would be with the crowd if you say buttons, for sure.
First thought is buttons but that’s too simple. The colored glass that washes ashore?
I have to agree with almost everyone and say it’s a close-up of buttons.
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Buttons, buttons, buttons. Everybody is seeing buttons. Lol, Tammy. We’ll see if everyone is seeing the “real” thing or not on Wednesday. When your little ones were beginning to talk, did you ever show them a button on your shirt and see if they could mimic you saying button? Or see if they could find the button? I remember some button games.
That last photo of the Mushroom, I’ve Never seen before, not even a photo. Well now I guess, because of the photo mystery I have seen a strange, Morel Mushroom!
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I had never seen one growing either, Jolynn, but I had seen pictures. I was surprised to find one where we did right there growing out of a rocky path. Always good to see something new or learn about some other wonder of nature.